Ayn Rand covered thoroughly the horror of altruism for the giver. Price deals with its horror for the recipient, for whom it's like an oversolicitous host raised, in this case, several orders of magnitude. While Clockers is painted on a larger canvas, it lacks this sort of penetrating psychological insight.
Which is the better book? Depends on your taste. But they're both awfully good, and in different ways, which gives me hope that Price may have yet to do his best work.
Samaritan
After a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, ex–high school teacher Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey city of his birth—to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter ...
Clockers
Blood Brothers
Freedomland
Wanderers
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